European Uzebox fans rejoice! From Russia comes a new version that uses the ubiquitous SCART TV interface. F0lken has successfully tested his design and no kernel code change was required. Moreover, it also means an even more retro-minimalist Uzebox since the AD725 is not required! Get his schematic here,  important information on the Wiki and check out his forum thread for more details.

Good news everyone! Thanks to Filipe Rinaldi, the Uzebox emulator now implements an internal GDB server (originally based on simulavr) making it an important tool to develop Uzebox games. You can use many debugging clients like avr-gdb (command line),  avr-insight & KDbg (GUI frontends) or even Eclipse to help troubleshoot your games. Visit the Emulator Wiki page for more details.

Paul McPhee released LePlatz, a level editor for the Platz toolset (supporting Platz v1.0). LePlatz eliminates the tedious task of converting images of your game world into textual data structures. LePlatz provides a GUI with a set of tools corresponding to the logical structure of the format expected by the Platz toolset. You simply need to draw shapes on your game world canvas and LePlatz does the rest. Read about its features and download here.